The Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA-QMUL) at Queen Mary and Mother’s Bridge of Love (MBL) organized an On-Campus Fundraiser on the 20th, May, for the Help Children in China Quake project, which aims to help children and orphanages in the disaster area.

The one-day fundraising took place in front of the library of QMUL. Staff, students in Queen Mary and engineer workers working near by show great concern about the Chinese earthquake and donated generously. Chinese students donated elegant traditional Chinese handicraft, silk scarf and fine calligraphy tool kits as gifts, as well as for donation sale. But a lot of the donors kindly refused the expensive gifts. Instead, they happily took a simple handmade Green ribbon or Chinese knot as a memory.

1738.41 in GBP were collected in this event and has been sent to the China Education Development Foundation. Click here to view the receipt for the bank transfer.

The Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA-QMUL) at Queen Mary and Mother’s Bridge of Love (MBL) are organizing an On-Compus Fundraiser for the Help Children in China Quake project, which aims to help children and orphanages in the disaster area.

CSSA-QMUL and MBL are making an urgent appeal to all to donate money for the disaster relief, targeting at helping the SUFFERING CHILDREN SPECIFICALLY. We thank for friends who already called, donated money and shared their concerns. We are calling for more people to join the rescue action.

On-Campus donation and Charity Sales will take place on Tue 20th May 08, between 11am and 4pm,

The death toll caused by earthquake is nearly 15,000 and looks set to rise in the disaster area- SiChuan. 10,000 people were thought to remain buried and massive landslides had buried roads to outlying villages. A lot of pupils are buried by the collapsed school buildings too.
The local authorities spoke that water, clothes, medicine, and food are mostly needed. Long haul travel is not recommended at this moment due to seriously damaged local traffic.

The Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA) at Queen Mary has started calling for help and donations. The CSSA has circulated e-mails regarding the call among Chinese students and many of them have already sent their donations. It is now time to join all our forces and help those who are suffering. Recommendations on the methods of donations are in the following.

The Chinese Embassy in the UK has set up a dedicated bank account for donation to the SiChuan Earthquake. Donations can be made through money transfer or cheques. Details of the donation including account details can be found on the Chinese Embassy’s websitehttp://uk.china-embassy.org/eng/sghd/t434619.htm

Alternatively the British Red Cross has also started a program to appeal for help on the SiChuan Earthquake since yesterday. Donations can be made online through the British Red Cross website at http://www.redcross.org.uk/news.asp?id=81083

To help children and orphanages in the disaster area, along with Chinese Embassy, Mother Bridge of Love (MBL) is also making an urgent appeal to all to donate money for the disaster relief, targeting at helping the SUFFERING CHILDREN SPECIFICALLY. MBL thank for friends who called, donated money and shared their concerns. They are calling for more people to join the rescue action.

Last year, MBL donated money to the flood-hit area in Sichuan directly. They will guarantee that 100% of the donation will be sent to Sichuan again to urgently save the life of Children. Their focus will be helping children to recover from physical and physiological damage. A website dedicated to the SiChuan Earthquake has been also set up by MBL at http://sichuanearthquake.org.uk/

To make a donation to help the MBL at this moment; the efficient way is to support their Edinburgh Marathon Runners. Please go to website: www.justgiving.com/rbsjames to give your contributions. Any other form of support you could provide please contact MBL through headoffice@motherbridge.org 020 70340686